6th Annual Finnegans St. Patrick’s Day Pub Crawl: This year’s crawl will take place on Saturday, March 15th with headquarters set up at Shamrocks in St. Paul.

Volunteers Needed For:
A Taste of Grape and Hops, Saturday, February 9th at Hamline University
Food and Wine Expo, Saturday, February 23rd and Sunday, February 24th
Liquor store tastings (various dates and locations)

And last but not least, congratulations to Finnegans’ Drink Like You Care Campaign which raised a total of $12,991 in 2007 for local non-profit organizations!

Flat Earth Winter Warlock should be available by the end of January both on draft and in bottles. Their newest seasonal is a golden English Barleywine weighing in at 9% ABV.

Flat Earth Belgian Pale Ale and  Element 115 are both available in 22 oz. bombers – keep your eyes open for bombers of Cygnus X-1 by the end of the month.

If you’d like to see where the Flat Earth magic happens their next tour will be January 19th at 1 pm. They can also be found that same night at 6:30 at the Lilydale Pool & Yacht Club pouring their Belgian pale ale at a Belgian beer tasting sponsored by Chisago Lakes Distribution. $25 gets you tastes of 10 micro and imports. For more information contact Petchen’s Southview Liquors at 651-455-7070 or petschen@mindspring.com.

Stop by Common Roots Cafe January 31st from 5:00 – 7:00 pm for a Flat Earth evening.

And for a whole meal accompanied by Flat Earth’s fine creations head over to The Happy Gnome on February 5th for their first beer dinner. I’ve heard these beer dinners usually sell out so make sure to call The Gnome ahead of time to make your reservation (651-287-2018).